On the first Sunday in November, at six o’clock sharp, as visiting hours at the retirement home ‘Peace’ begin, kyra Efthalia’s daughter arrives. She works as an administrative assistant at the hospital of Patras, two blocks down the street, but she usually visits once a month. She’s wearing a plasterboard-starched beige suit and bright red Read more […]

I’d been badgered for a while by mum to get a Saturday job but this time the threat felt real. Dad was kind of on my side, but he also was adding the pressure lately. ‘You have to get a job, Michael. We’re not going to pay for another computer game, and that’s that,’ my Read more […]

Kingdom Random Glummerdom, only son of Lord Archibald Giles Glummerdom was by all accounts a most peculiar creature. His physical attributes alone attested to that, for he possessed a pair of fish-like eyes that gazed vaguely out from their sockets, a gaunt elongated face ending in a receding chin, a pair of groper lips, pouted Read more […]

It was 2.56am when it occurred to Emma that she could not remember the name of her childhood friend’s cat. Lindsey had been her timid next-door-but-two-neighbour, and her cat had been completely black with an incongruously bright pink nose. Emma’s daughter had reminded her of the creature that evening. ‘A kitten got stuck on the Read more […]

I had hoped – selfishly I’ll admit – that after her death, he would be able to forget her. This, however, was not the case. I sit beside him now, a stone’s throw away from Land’s End, on a makeshift wooden bench. Soft and brown, the bark having peeled off long ago; leaving behind a Read more […]

Konstantina Sozou-Kyrkou was born and raised to retailers as well as farmers parents in a small mountainous village in western Greece. When she was seventeen she moved to Athens for University studies and then, after studying various subjects (from business administration to painting, from drama to ESL teaching) and while changing several jobs, she settled Read more […]

Mark Lynch grew up in East London and has been interested in storytelling as far back as he can remember. He’s done brief stints in amateur acting, having once played Bill Sykes in a school play and then many years later going on to join acting classes and performing in small performances in Central London. Read more […]

William Prendiville is the author of the forthcoming Fairlight Books novella Atlantic Winds, to be published on 11 July 2019. Born in Ireland, William was raised in Canada, in Newfoundland and Ontario. He attended McGill University in Montreal, where he was awarded the Lionel Shapiro Award for Creative Writing. William has lived in Paris, France Read more […]

Edward Vass is the author of the upcoming novella Milton in Purgatory, published by Fairlight Books on 26 September 2019. With a degree in marketing and advertising from the University of Lincoln, Edward now works at the British Medical Association. He lives just outside Brighton with his family. Graduating Lincoln, Edward left the UK to Read more […]

Omar Sabbagh is the author of Minutes from the Miracle City, publishing on 11 July 2019. Born in London, Omar now lives in Dubai, where he works as an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the American University of Dubai. Omar holds a PhD in English Literature from King’s College, University of London. Read more […]